Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so diff

This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the b

Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

Considering a wide range of cultural materials and engaging in a close reading of literary texts, this book draws a compelling comparison between national ident